Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 12:54 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi Svante,
>
> On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 17:58 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> >
> > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any
> > longer?
>
> I think it would be nice to make restoring the original configuration
> easier. The various --force-conf* options by dpkg are not easily
> discovered and require the binary package (*.deb) to still be
> available.
>
> Having the original configuration available also would allow to
> easier
> generate a "diff" of local changes. This makes it easier to support
> systems usually maintained by different people, or even systems not
> using a configuration management system in general.
etckeeper helps with some aspects of that sort of thing.
I think it would be really cool if etckeeper could create and maintain
a dpkg-dist branch with all the pristine stuff in it, no idea what
hooks or integration would be needed for that though!
Ian.
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